Bernie Sanders: The system is rigged.....

[Playinghardball]

[Mass]

1. K & R.

Thank you for actually caring about people and showing some empathy for them.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. And so have been our "choices" for Pres., and most assuredly, rigged is our voting system.

"The banks own the place."

[belzabubba333]

3. testify

[hifiguy]

4. I and effing R

Bernie tells the truth.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[daleanime]

6. K&R....

Poster material!

[Duval]

7. He speaks the truth!

Thanks, Playinghardball. We need him in the White House as President!

[Dustlawyer]

8. And why is it again that Bernie is unelectable? Why would we want a candidate that will most

assuredly continue to protect Wall Street! Is it to keep the Republicans from winning? With friends like that, who needs enemies!

Bernie and Publicly Funded Elections. Let's fight the root problem of campaign bribery that allows the 1% to control our government, courts and the media! Otherwise, we will keep bitching about the same damn problems as they only get worse. I for one am tired of that and have had enough, I hope you have too!

Who is with me on this?

[dotymed]

10. I am with you

100% brother.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. I'm with you, too

but what do we do? Where do we start? We're talking about forces that are unrelenting and of virtually unlimited wealth and power.

[Dustlawyer]

12. I had disagreed with the leaderless part of OWS. It needed someone to express what the movement

was about and why. Also, it had way too many issues to be effective. Most of the things they were complaining about stemmed from the same root problem, the buying of our Representatives. In other words, institutional, legalized corruption! Don't get me wrong, OWS did a ton of good and exposed some of how far they are willing to go to protect their control over our government and the media.
My thoughts on what we need to do, while fairly general, are a good start. There are many of us out their with different skill sets that could refine my basic suggestion and add in ideas to maximize our effectiveness.
It will take massive support from the 99% in the form of protests, donations to Bernie's campaign, and letters to politicians and the media. To start to build a necessary coalition to be large enough to have an effect, I was thinking, why not engage the groups that are fighting their own, independent battles for women's rights, immigration, environment/climate change, LGBTV, militarization of police, GMO crops... and obviously, financial reform to name a few. They are all fighting the symptoms of this legalized bribery and making little headway because of it. There is definetely strength in numbers.
We can also try to make some inroads to the dark side and try to recruit Republicans, Tea Party members, and Libertarians. Many of them do not like having money from corporations deciding their fate either. Just tell them George Soros or some Hollywood elites will be buying their Representative! Lol.
For the protests, I was thinking that we start by appearing at campaign events with signs showing that politician's most recent campaign financial report and ask, "What do you have to do in return for the $$$?" and similar messages. We tell the rest of America what they already know, but give them specifics of just how much money, or junkets, or ALEC sponsored bills they introduced. Put the corruption right out front and name names!
We offer them the solution, Publicly Funded Elections and an end to campaign contributions and the revolving door. We get the politicians to sign our pledge to fight for these things in return for our money and support. If we have a lot of people, we will get a lot of politicians. They will go with whatever looks likely to keep or get their butts in office!
I am sure that here on DU are members of many of these other organizations fighting for the issue closest to their hearts. They can help recruit their organization, the PTB can no longer keep us divided because they have finally gone to far! The trick is convincing others that we can actually do this, they already know about the corruption. Open for suggestions on that one, but that is where Bernie will have to come in and help in a big way. If he would approach the leaders of these groups and help to bind us together we can do this, I am convinced! Besides, what have we got to lose.
Lastly, once we have a full head of steam we drop the big one and insist that the politicians bust up the banking and media oligopolies. That is when the real shit will hit the fans!

[Enthusiast]

20. Me

[former9thward]

9. Productivity has increased because of technology and machinery.

Workers at a given job have not had "a huge increase in productivity." If you replace 10 workers with robots that does not mean the one remaining worker has become 10 times more productive. Compare apples with apples.

[TBF]

13. Capitalism is inherently rigged -

the whole system is a pyramid scheme.

[bigwillq]

14. K and R

[liberal_at_heart]

15. K&R

[aspirant]

16. President Bernie

I say keep unannounced as long as you can.

The corrupt media's attention will have no choice but to cover the mysterious dem candidates.

Force the repubs to walk all over each other for a bite of the media's apple.

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. Preach it, brother!

[woo me with science]

18. K&R Bernie Sanders 2016

[lonestarnot]

19. Bernie gets it, so why don't working people get this? Why do they still vote for pugs?

[Enthusiast]

21. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! nt

[ReRe]

22. K&R

"The system is rigged, and "Republicans rigged it," is what Sen Elizabeth Warren said recently. But this is what I say, in addition to what Bernie said: The system is rigged, and Republicans and Corporate-owned Democrats rigged it."